Alberto Mendez

Alberto Mendez

Alberto Mendez won the 2002 International Stories Prize for one of the stories in Blind Sunflowers and he was posthumously awarded the Spanish National Prize for Fiction in 2005 for the whole collection. It also won the Setenil and Review awards . The last story of the book, which gives it its name, was made into a film in 2008 by José Luis Rope with a screenplay by Rafael Azcona.